I would like to talk about tomorrow's day of our army. And not only the army, but the army question - it seems to be very burning.
When every household appliance in my apartment, from a TV to a coffee grinder, talks about how much the sanctions helped us to become more independent from the outside world and what leaps and bounds import substitution is taking across the country, I understand (especially looking at all these Sony, Bosch, Philips, Acer and others around them) that everything is going as it should. And where necessary.
And it even becomes somehow so indifferent that all these "achievements" of our aircraft industry in the person of the An-148 and "Superjet-100" are actually that same hodgepodge from all over the world.
It may not even be that bad. This clearly benefited our passenger car industry, products from Togliatti and Izhevsk with each model more and more begin to resemble cars in the world sense. Another 15-20 years of this evolution, and disc rear brakes, power steering and automatic transmissions will become the same integral part of the VAZ model. In multimedia systems, they were able to - it means that someday this will all appear.
True, a huge amount of agricultural machinery from Western manufacturers, to be honest, is not impressive yet. As well as the ever-increasing availability of, for example, road machinery and excavators.
But let's omit these nuances, we will talk about the army.
When you observe with your own eyes the principle “no - well, to hell with it, we'll buy from a neighbor”, on the one hand, it seems like nothing. When it comes to microwaves or telephones, it’s all right.
But when you begin to observe the manifestations of this principle in the army, then inevitably you begin to scratch the back of your head, wondering if something like that will turn out sideways for us.
It would seem a trifle - an alternator. Well, what could be easier? Really in such a "failed"?
It turns out that yes, they could not. Constantly on the exercises you come across imported ones. And it would be okay, Chinese. So no, according to employees' reviews, really cool generators from Lombardini. Not to be confused with Lamborghini.
Nevertheless, an Italian company with 80 years of history, the world leader among the manufacturers of diesel engines up to 50 kW.
Italy. Member of NATO since 1949. A country pursuing an "open and independent" policy.
And here only one question arises. And if tomorrow is another round of sanctions? And for a huge number of diesel generators they will stop selling us repair kits and spare parts? What's next? Rely on China?
In general, we can talk for a long time about how great we have cooperated with the member countries of the NATO bloc. Here you have a "mistral" theme with the French, right there and "Lynx" as a miscarriage from the Italian Iveco.
But the issue of the army's energy independence is very annoying by its presence. Sorry, but this is nonsense if a part will not be able to complete the task, since there will be no energy for the complexes and systems. Due to the failure and inability to repair the generators.
Farther. Next we have computers and laptops. There is generally sadness and melancholy.
Panasonic and its copies are the only ones who produce notebooks protected from moisture and mechanical stress.
Yes, our "potential" from the US Army use the same models from the same company. Another question is who is more profitable, and who, on occasion, will ask about the Japanese manufacturers.
By the way, I saw the same thing in the “new” topographic center. Yes, there is now one instead of three trucks. And all thanks to the fact that the equipment from Canon takes up less space.
The rest is such a trifle as uninterruptible power supply units from APC, monitors from ASUS, processors from IBM - just as a fact. No more.
Topogeodetic equipment. Here we have a "Leica". Germany, as it were.
But in essence, these are all the vulnerabilities of the army. For the full program.
And I am not talking about imported components that do not cause concern. For example, Belarusian sights. Plissa, Sosna-U, PKP-T, Sozh-M, Vesna-K. Their presence on Russian equipment from BMP-3 to BMPT "Terminator" and tanks (all) do not seem to be a weak spot.
Although it is very interesting what the specialists of St. Petersburg and Krasnogorsk are doing.
But everything that comes from Italy, Japan, the Republic of China (Taiwan) and our other "partners" causes not only concern, but gives rise to the feeling that if something happens, we will not just be vulnerable.
On the sites devoted to import substitution and on the pages of certain media outlets, a lot and colorfully today are told about the success of this very substitution.
But the reality is that replacing tomatoes in the market is one thing, but the processors in a military computer and the generator that powers this computer is another. And the processor, produced in Taiwan (even if it seems to be a domestic "Elbrus"), and the Italian diesel generator, and everything else - this can in no way be called a victory and confidence in tomorrow.
Canon won't supply filler for cartridges - how to print cards?
Lombardini will not supply rings, brushes and filters for generators - what to replace?
Processors in our computers and other paraphernalia of our time are in general a special topic.
Topogeodetic instruments from Leica. Sanctions, lack of supplies, spare parts and accessories - so what? Is that all, we put an end to the cards? Will we print this cross on "Canon"?
A strange situation, to be honest. It seems like a war for "our own, Russian", but in reality? In fact, I showed only a part of the import. But - in our army.
This seems to be the little things, but it is with the little things that everything usually starts.
